Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 593 726
Rank change year-on-year -79 +133 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 115 87 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 83 59 53
10th Percentile £57,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,625 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 104,733 44,390 75,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 72,126 26,208 47,516
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,132 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,500 £74,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -95 104 £72,500 -6.45% 23
UK excluding London -45 59 £72,500 +20.83% 9
London -96 49 £77,500 -1.59% 17
Work from Home -46 43 £70,000 +9.38% 11
East of England -6 24 £72,500 -3.33% 2
North of England -54 16 £77,500 +29.17% 3
Midlands -23 10 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands - 10 £70,000 -
North East - 9 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 6 £75,000 -
North West -19 4 £80,000 +33.33% 1
Yorkshire -47 3 £70,000 +16.67% 2
South East -39 1 - - 1
South West - 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £58,565 -

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 September 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (48.70%) AWS
3 35 (30.43%) Software Engineering
4 33 (28.70%) AI
4 33 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (26.96%) CI/CD
6 30 (26.09%) RESTful
7 25 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 22 (19.13%) Validation
9 21 (18.26%) Azure
10 19 (16.52%) API Design
10 19 (16.52%) Event-Driven
10 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (14.78%) Agile
12 17 (14.78%) FastAPI
13 16 (13.91%) Continuous Delivery
13 16 (13.91%) Docker
13 16 (13.91%) Generative AI
13 16 (13.91%) Observability
13 16 (13.91%) Swagger
14 15 (13.04%) JavaScript
14 15 (13.04%) Kubernetes
15 14 (12.17%) Linux
15 14 (12.17%) MongoDB
15 14 (12.17%) SQL
16 13 (11.30%) Mentoring
16 13 (11.30%) React
17 12 (10.43%) AWS Lambda

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.61%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.87%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 56 (48.70%) AWS
2 21 (18.26%) Azure
3 12 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (10.43%) Serverless
4 9 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (6.09%) SaaS
6 5 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.35%) GitHub
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.87%) GCP
9 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.70%) Broadband
2 9 (7.83%) MQTT
3 3 (2.61%) 4G
3 3 (2.61%) 5G
3 3 (2.61%) DNS
3 3 (2.61%) HTTP
3 3 (2.61%) SSH
3 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.17%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.09%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.61%) MySQL
4 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.61%) Redis
5 2 (1.74%) GIS
6 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.87%) Milvus
6 1 (0.87%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Git
2 4 (3.48%) GitLab
2 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.61%) Selenium
4 1 (0.87%) MLflow
General
1 16 (13.91%) Finance
2 13 (11.30%) Front Office
2 13 (11.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.70%) Games
3 10 (8.70%) Health Technology
3 10 (8.70%) Tech for Good
4 5 (4.35%) Banking
5 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.48%) Publishing
6 3 (2.61%) Law
6 3 (2.61%) Legal
6 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Advertising
8 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.09%) RESTful
2 17 (14.78%) FastAPI
3 16 (13.91%) Swagger
4 13 (11.30%) React
5 12 (10.43%) Kafka
5 12 (10.43%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (9.57%) Flask
7 10 (8.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 10 (8.70%) Node.js
8 9 (7.83%) HTML
8 9 (7.83%) OpenAPI
9 7 (6.09%) CSS
10 6 (5.22%) Jinja
10 6 (5.22%) Pandas
11 5 (4.35%) REST
12 4 (3.48%) Next.js
12 4 (3.48%) pytest
12 4 (3.48%) Terraform
12 4 (3.48%) Vue
13 3 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.35%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.30%) Algorithms
2 13 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (9.57%) Data Structures
4 10 (8.70%) Equities
4 10 (8.70%) Hedge funds
4 10 (8.70%) Low-Code
4 10 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 10 (8.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (3.48%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.74%) Derivative
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) NHS
6 2 (1.74%) PropTech
6 2 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.87%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Unix
2 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.43%) Software Engineering
2 33 (28.70%) AI
2 33 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (26.96%) CI/CD
4 25 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 22 (19.13%) Validation
6 19 (16.52%) API Design
6 19 (16.52%) Event-Driven
7 18 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (14.78%) Agile
9 16 (13.91%) Continuous Delivery
9 16 (13.91%) Generative AI
9 16 (13.91%) Observability
10 13 (11.30%) Mentoring
11 12 (10.43%) DevOps
11 12 (10.43%) OO
11 12 (10.43%) OOP
12 11 (9.57%) Machine Learning
12 11 (9.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 115 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 14 (12.17%) SQL
4 10 (8.70%) C++
4 10 (8.70%) Go
5 9 (7.83%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.48%) Bash
6 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.74%) Rust
8 1 (0.87%) Bicep
8 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
1 2 (1.74%) Degree
1 2 (1.74%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.43%) QA
2 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (13.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.48%) Grafana
3 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.87%) Puppet